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Although I tend to spend a long time thinking about and planning the side dishes for holiday dinners you just can't forget about the dessert! When I recently discovered the sweet potato casserole I was amazed at how well sweet potatoes work in sweet dessert like dishes and I have been wanting to try using them to make a sweet potato pie since. I was set to make a sweet potato pie for my Thanksgiving meal this year but just before I came across the concept of a sweet potato pecan pie which sounded so good that I had to quickly change my plans. A sweet potato pecan pie is essentially a pie with a layer of sweet potato pie topped with a layer of pecan pie . How can you go wrong rolling up two great pies into one? I just had to try it!

Most of the recipes that I found for sweet potato pies and pecan pies called for golden syrup but I decided to go with a maple twist and I used maple syrup instead. The pie was surprisingly easy to make; you simply mix the two different filling, pour them into the pie shell and bake. The sweet potato pecan pie turned out so amazingly well! The sweet potato pie filling spiked with pumpkin pie spices and bourbon with the hint of maple was so good! The maple pecan pie was of course just as good as the last time that I made it and it went really well with the sweet potato pie. This of one of those cases where the sum of the parts is better than the individual components. Even thought the sweet potato pie was really good by itself and the pecan pie was really good by itself, together they were even better! I could not stop there and I topped the sweet potato pecan pie off with some maple pecan ice cream with a hit of bourbon.

This dessert looks so fantastic! At our Thanksgiving here in Texas we always have a sweet potato pie and pecan pie, maybe this year I can freak everyone out (in a good way) and show up with one of these!

i've been following your blog for a while, and you just post great recipe after great recipe! i needed a good dessert for a dinner party this weekend, and this looks like the perfect choice. love your photos.

Kevin... There is a classic sweet potato casserole down here in the South (US) that I have always thought would be good as a pie. Now you have done just that... I can't wait to try this scrumptious pie! Thanks…

Your pie looks wonderful- especially with the ice cream on top! Good combo of flavors! I make a sweet potato pie but it's a savory pie- think it was a Martha Stewart recipe years ago. I'll be anxious to try your dessert pie now.

Kevin, do you think this recipe would work with pumpkin instead of sweet potato? My host is already planning on sweet potato casserole, but i love the idea of pecan and pumpkin together as well and all the maple syrup sounds fantastic--much better than corn syrup.

I don't have an ice cream maker. . . what do you think about adding a small amount of finely crumbled/chopped thick maple bacon to the pecan filling? Is that too much? This recipe sounds brilliant, thanks.

If you get a standard pie crust from the store, all the mix does not fit. It over flowed. I should have made two pies or one deep dish. It is still cooking though and I only could fit half of the glaze for the pecans.

Nathan: There is a lot of confusion out there about sweet potatoes and yams! Sweet potatoes can have different colours including beige through white, red, pink, violet, yellow, orange, and purple and the ones that are most common around here are the orange fleshed ones. Some more info on sweet ptatoes and yams:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potatohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yam_(vegetable)

Staci DeShasier: The eggs are there to make the pie layers set and hold their shape. I have never tried it but you may be able to replace each egg with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch which would work as a thickener.

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I came to realize that my meals were boring and that I had been eating the same few dishes over and over again for years. It was time for a change! I now spend my free time searching for, creating and trying tasty new recipes in my closet sized kitchen.